Elaenia Dayi Bird
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Elaenia Dayi Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Elaenia dayi Am.Mus.Novit. no.341 p.3
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Elaenia
Taxonomy Code: greela1
Type Locality: summit of Cerro Roraima, 8,600 ft., Venezuela.
Author: Chapman
Publish Year: 1929
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ELAENIA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Elaenia E. flavogaster) Gr. ελαινεος elaineos of olive-oil, oleaginous < ελαια elaia olive; "Elænia n. g. 6) Musc. pagana Licht.; brevirostris, — modesta, — aurifrons Pr. Max; — Hylophilus cinerascens ejusd. Numerosæ americanæ, transitum ad Tyrannides præbentes; Fringillis subsimiles. ... 6) Rostrum crassiusculum, breve, basi dilatatum, altitudine latius; carina dorsali subacuta, sutura recta. Membrana narium plumulis tecta. Vibrissæ tenues. Alæ mediocres vel sub-breves, rotundatæ, remigib. 3-5 reliqvis longioribus. Pedes mediocres, digitis brevibus, subliberis. Olivaceæ-cinerascentes; sæpe subtus, interdum vertice flavæ. — Eλαινιος, oleagineus." (Sundevall 1836); "Elaenia Sundevall, 1836, Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 1835, p. 89. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa pagana Lichtenstein = Pipra flavogaster Thunberg." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 26-27).
Var. Elaenea, Elainea, Elainia, Eloenia, Elana, Elania.
dayi
Col. Lee Garnett Day (1890-1966) US financier, explorer in Brazil 1914, sponsor of expeditions to tropical America 1915, 1927 (Capito, Elaenia).
SUBSPECIES
Great Elaenia (tyleri)
Latin Name: Elaenia dayi tyleri
tyleri
Sidney Frederick Tyler, Jr. (1907-1993) US banker, sponsor and member of Tyler-Duida Expedition 1928-1929 (Laurent Raty in litt.) (subsp. Elaenia dayi).
Great Elaenia (auyantepui)
Latin Name: Elaenia dayi auyantepui
auyantepui
Auyan-tepui, Bolívar, Venezuela.
Great Elaenia (dayi)
Latin Name: Elaenia dayi dayi
dayi
Col. Lee Garnett Day (1890-1966) US financier, explorer in Brazil 1914, sponsor of expeditions to tropical America 1915, 1927 (Capito, Elaenia).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
